#Tod <tod@gentoo.org> - upgraded versions of all things alsa.
#Package masking initially because libsound.so.1 is no longer
#supplied with alsa-lib (it is libsound.so.2 now). This requires
#massive recompiles if user had previous versions of alsa installed.
#Don't want any unwary user to merge these packages, because almost
#everthing to do with sound will break until recomiled. Don't know
#if a compatibility ln would suffice.
>=media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-sound/alsa-tools-0.9.0_beta10-r1

So it's actually there and supported, but if you unmask and emerge it you'll have to recompile everything that uses it

#Tod <tod@gentoo.org> - upgraded versions of all things alsa.
#Package masking initially because libsound.so.1 is no longer
#supplied with alsa-lib (it is libsound.so.2 now). This requires
#massive recompiles if user had previous versions of alsa installed.
#Don't want any unwary user to merge these packages, because almost
#everthing to do with sound will break until recomiled. Don't know
#if a compatibility ln would suffice.
>=media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-sound/alsa-tools-0.9.0_beta10-r1

So it's actually there and supported, but if you unmask and emerge it you'll have to recompile everything that uses it

rachaef

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2. or as was said, commented out the alsa-0.9 entries in the package.mask. (your change will be overwritten every 'emerge rsync')

Note: After you merge alsa-libs-0.9, check and see if there is a symlink from libasound.so.1 to libasound.so.2. That trick saved me from having to recompile some apps. I think the ebuild should do it for you.

Note2: some sound apps, will not work regardless of the symlink above period, as the have not been updated yet up-stream to work with 0.9. see mailing lists (particularly post by Spider for more info)

everything else is beta 0.9.10 soo....if you emerge utils or tools or oss IT WILL uninstall the rc1 driver and install the beta driver which sucks

my advise download from Alsa and install manually, however another word of caution Libasound1.so IS NOT INCLUDED so you will have some issues if you dont know what you are doing.

in conclusion:
If your system is up an running and everything works including sound and you are a bit green on the manual configuration department (no pun intended we are all learning) leave it the hell alone !!! until the gentoo developers unmask it and come up with a work around for it.

if like me you like to mess with things to get it to work on your own then by all means go ahead and mess with it

like my grandfather use to say "you want to go fly fishing??.....then you are gonna get your ass wet !

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